I'm not sure whether I <3 these films, but they definitely are the ones that I rate the most:
Bad Boy Bubby
The Reflecting Skin
but most of all...'Chuck and Buck' - the main character Buck is quite mysterious. He's in arrested development, but is still overtly sexual. He's sympathetic, but a complete freak. The film is also a comedy. It's great.
Which films have disturbed you/fascinated you most and why?
blue velvet
because he acts like a baby and he wears a gas mask when he rapes her
i've just got back from a 14 hour shift and I can say whatever i damn well please
are you and alley
the same person?
nope
yep
take zat.
yeah, the answer is no.
He didn't rape her.
you're right.
soz
Tarnation
You may remember that it was made for about five pence but incurred legal fees of $250k. Basically it's a documentary about a guy's crazy mother and his sexuality and stuff. It's not that good either.
i saw this in the cinema
I can't remember much except that he was a control freak (as you would be, with that upbringing), and that the early footage was a bit disturbing.
Why was he sued?
Has he finished the ATP movie that he was supposed to do, I wonder?
and mostly -
why did you find it disturbing?
I think it was copyright stuff just.
To get it into the cinemas and all that.
The scene where he dresses up as and acts like a girl aged TEN was disturbing. And the electro-shock treatment chapter too. That was about as far as I got before I had the nerve to watch it again.
yeah, that scene was very bizarre
I guess some people are that strange from an early age...
He was still working on it last year.
One of my friends met him at a chalet party. He managed to offend him somehow. I can't remember exactly what happened...sorry, not a great story.
Tarnation for sure
It felt so weird/horrible watching it....
Pirates of The Caribbean 3
I had to leave the cinema twice to recuperate from the shock and then got very drunk afterwards to try and blot out the memory. No horror film could force me to the point where my body revolts by collapsing into sweats and fits.
oh I forgot
Mysterious Skin, but that's filmed so beautifully I don't find it as disturbing as the others (even though the actual story is)
I don't want to go to the devil's house
Dead Man's Shoes caught me in the gut when I first saw it. Toby Kebbel's acting in the final flashback sequence, combined with De Profundis booming out of your speakers, is enough to give anyone the spookies.
That was pretty disturbing.
But I'd probably have to go with Irreversible. Yeuch.
Irreversible
see: fire extinguisher scene
rape scene
Crash.
The one with Matt Dillon. Its a film for thick people that thinks its intelligent. Now thats disturbing!
^ my sentiments
although the one with James Spader isn't exactly thought-provoking either
Crash fucking sucked!
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Not as disturbing
as the Crash of the 1990s which featured people who liked to have sex with almost-dead car crash victims
I always got them confused
I was so disappointed.
Irreversible!!!!
The rape scene is partcularly disturbing. The way it's shot so that you see the entire thig in plain view.
And the head being bashed with the fire extinguisher looks so real.
Shivers.
Factotum
because it was so horribly depressing.
Man Bites Dog was fairly disturbing in a more conventional sense.
Switchblade Romance
It's just so horrific. But I still watched it to the end.
^
fucking great movie!!!
^ It was
but I was still disturbed for a long time as a result.
Visitor Q
Everything about this film is so wrong. I love it though.
what is this film about?
its the best film ever
visitor q is. it begins with a man and daughter in a drawn out sex scene, then some guy getting smashed in the head with a brick.
it also features a woman who enjoys wearing bin bags and milking herself. amongst other strange things
Threads
Utterly horrible 80s film about what would happen if nuclear war had broken out. It's fascinating to watch it now from the (relative) safety of the 21st century.
Also: Ring is terrifyingly creepy, and I seem to be one of the few people who actually found The Exorcist to be really disturbing. If you take out the cartoonish bits like the pea soup and the head spinning round it's genuinely frightening.
Ive still never seen Threads.
I remember watching the American version 'The Day After'. How do they manage to turn the worst disaster imaginable into something so sloppily sentimental?!...disturbing.
The Day After is like a Disney film in comparison with Threads
Threads is so disturbing
The thought of nuclear war terrified me when i was younger (it still does) and our teachers made us watch Threads in school. I begged and pleaded to be excused from watching it but i was forced to. My teacher was sorry when i projectile vomited across the classroom halfway through and had to be carried out screaming :-s
ooo!
have you seen Miracle Mile?
sounds similar.. very weird though! i thought it was kind of a comedy until the end and then i realised how weird it was.. ARGH!!
seconded.
that film feels incredibly realistic and freaked the living fuck out of me when we were shown it at school in about 1986. watched it again a few years later, and it still has massive impact.
Miracle Mile was recently remade.
It was retitled 'Cloverfield' and a monster replaced the nukes. Not many DiSsers know that.
?
that was a remake of miracle mile? i haven't seen cloverfield. i'm not sure miracle mile would be good without the bizarre 80s b-movie charm.. and if the nukes were replaced by a giant monster.. hmm
Dogville
or probably 'Bara prata lite' by Lukas Moodysson
Trouble Every Day
Its that Vincent Gallo film where Béatrice Dalle eats people whilst having sex with them.
Happiness is pretty disturbing too, especially the scene where the father explains to his son how he fucked his friend but doesn't want to fuck him (his son) because he doesn't find him attractive.
When the wind blows
Henry: portrait of a serial killer
Audition
Eraserhead (mainly for the teeth-grindingly relentless industrial soundtrack)
i read
this interview with takeshi miike where he said
"For me, Audition is not horror. At least, there is no monster, it's not supernatural. It's a story about a girl who has just slightly strange emotions, so it's not impossible to understand her. She just wants the person she loves to stay by her side. She doesn't commit a big crime, she just cuts the guy's foot off"
the moral of the story is presummably that it shouldntve been that disturbing, hmmm.
Maybe
"The Idiots" by Lars Von Trier. Its slightly jarring to see a group of people pretend to be mentally ill while they fuck each other. It is however one of my favourite films..
^this
I love that film
Whatever 'Faces of Death' it is I saw
Horrible stuff
Elephant,
its crushingly horrible when the kids start their rampage. Really horrible gut feeling, knowing that its not far removed from a real event.
No, he says he wouldn't
fuck his son, just wank over him.
Nice.
My apologies
Its a while since I watched it. Still, thats a good, close father/son bond, right?
I love Happiness
I went to see it with my parents and any my Nan. None of us expected it to be that graphic. I haven't spoken to my Nan much since then.
Happiness is spectacularrrrrrrr
Also Midnight Cowboy, Seventh Seal, Bad Education
In fact, probably most films, I get disturbed pretty easily I guess.
the piano teacher
the seventh continent
....................
Herbie
A Volkswagen with a mind of it's own?
Terrifying.
Haha!
Jurassic Park: The Directors Cut, with extra dinosaurs.
Videodrome
weird and gross, especially where his open stomach wound eats that guys hand. The pulsating tv was gross too.
Also Deliverance, Ichi the Killer and baise Moi (awful and horrible, I didn't watch it all). Maybe Salo as well, but that was just bad anyway.
Videodrome is ace.
I haven't seen it for tooo long.
^ Ichi the Killer
Ace, ace film, I wouldn't say it was that disturbing though...not in the same way as some other Miike films. Like Happiness of the Katakuris. That's one wacky film.
Come to think of it
I still have trouble getting through my Ghostwatch DVD with the lights off. That and Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds are hurdles I'll probably always have trouble trying to clear. The child fathers the adult, so they say.
Happiness of the Katakuris!
Haven't seen that for ages!
I didn't think Ichi The Killer was disturbing
Most Miike Takashi films are humourous, but in such a way that you feel a bit wrong for finding it funny.
Baise Moi was surely too rubbish to be disturbing?
I saw it at the cinema and most of the audience were bemused rather than shocked (well, judging from the reaction afterwards). I think the bit where the characters start saying 'this is just like a crazy film' made me want to leave.
I've never seen Deliverance!
Jubilee
just... what the hell?
Battlefield: Earth
Pearl Harbor
Happiness
Romper Stomper
Breaking the waves
That Nick Broomfield documentary about Aileen Wuornos that came out before 'Monster' - I litreally had to have a walk when I came out of the cinema to clear my head.
Wolf Creek
Was very disturbing. I remember sitting in the cinema as the credits rolled and saying to my mate "That was f**king disturbing."
Why? I guess it was John Jarrat's performance that I found the most disturbing. He just seemed to really enjoy violence and killing in that manical kind of way.
Plus I used to watch John Jarrat was on Play School when I was very young!
^^
please minus the first was from the last sentence. Grrrr, stupid brain!
A fair few
Ken Park
Funny Games
The Untold storylast house on the left
i mean
the untold story
the last house on the left
The Piano Teacher
Funny Games
Capturing the friedmans
Happiness
Angst
Irreversible
Mysterious Skin has a great soundtrack and Man Bites Dog is hilarious.
Funny Games
is brilliant. Not sure if I want to see the remake though, as it's *exactly* the same, scene for scene, just in English.
Well, you I just of thought of it as rewatching a film I enjoyed,
even though I personally don't tend to watch the same film over and over again.
There are a few slight differences, but I still prefer the original.
happiness is good
but for truly fucked:
lilja 4-ever.
close second is gummo.
Gummo's not that bad.
Not one of the most disturbing films I've seen.
feeding glass to cats
pimping out a retarded sister?
that's just standard fare?
the cement garden
i have to agree with Ichi The Killer
i hated it. and i saw zero humour. i was spinning out at the time though. horrible night.
Spanking the Monkey!
The film where a guy goes home to look after his mother who's broken her leg, and he ends up having sex with her...It makes me flinch and there's no blood or gore (apart from an Oedipal eye-poking) in it.
Amazing film.
not sure
but I saw a good horror short recently called Cutting Moments in which a jilted lover cuts her lips off with scissors. It's quite grim. She then cuts her husband's penis off although you don't see the gory details of that.
Lip mutilation is nasty.
I guess
I should say something like 'Vase de Noces' but I think 'Palindromes' is the most disturbing film I've ever seen. I came out physically shaking.
why?
I remember finding it hard-going, but...even though the changing actor device was really interesting, it made it hard to stay sympathetic sometimes (apart from in a detached sense, cos all the bodily changes make you conscious of her vulnerability). I thought it was exploitative. I guess Solondz was trying to challenge our ideas about exploitation and who can be exploited by testing our responses to the different bodies/sexes playing the same part? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. DEEP.
either way, I didn't find it that disturbing
Did you download Vas de Noces?
It sounds fucking bizarre.
"Come and See"
(or "Idi i smotri" if you're being a big ponce...)
Thoroughly depressing. Don't think I can really describe how weird I felt watching this film. The greatest war film ever made?
http://imdb.com/title/tt0091251/
I'd also second Threads.
irreversible really wasn't that shocking
the rape scene got really tedious after about 10 minutes
tetsuo:the iron man
eep!
I can't think of one at the moment
but for now The Witches...
The Witches was probably the most disturbing film of my childhood.
'Do you want some choco-late?'
NO!
WHATS THE NAME OF THAT FILM
it's an old horror movie where some woman gives birth to like satan's child or something. i did not find it the most disturbing film i've seen but something made me think of it and i can't remember what it's called aaargh!
Rosemary's Bab